The Future President, Donald Trump

I think I have said three or four times that if Trump drops out or I find out that he is not serious about wanting the job then I most likely will become a Sanders supporter.

Yeah, ...Trump - Sanders... Six of one, half dozen of the other. You are really one mixed up dude.

His outlandish and rude comments about Mexico have already led to piñatas of Trump being sold all over Mexico.

With Trump slipping in the polls in Iowa and nationally, the moderators and the other candidates paid him scant attention. Trump, meanwhile, held back, exercising a restraint that befits a besieged front-runner but that also raises questions about his ability to defend a lead that he had maintained by keeping himself at the center of the conversation.
Trump said he welcomed his smaller role in the third debate. “I think that’s an asset. Not a liability,” he told POLITCO after the debate. Trump said he believes the moderators backed off of him after he took issue with CNBC moderator John Harwood, who asked him if he was running “the comic book version of a presidential campaign.”
“I was honored by that,” Trump told POLITICO of the diminished attention.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/debate-donald-trump-shrinkage-2016-215333#ixzz3pzLVbZJf

Haynes saw Trump’s restraint as “a reflection of his maturity and the ever growing sense that he might actually be able to win.”
“Trump was steady. He wasn't his usual spectacularly interesting and divisive self. He felt like a front-runner, playing to survive and advance,” said Haynes, “He's more cautious, mitigating risks and consolidating his base.”
Trump also maintained sizable leads in the unscientific online reader polls he has cited after each of the two previous debates, winning in surveys conducted by CNBC, Slate and the Drudge Report.
An hour after the debate’s conclusion, Trump tweeted, “Thanks everyone, they all said I won the debate.”

In a scathing critique of the Republican presidential candidate, the New York Times calls on Chris Christie to exit the race. Stat.

"The point is that New Jersey is in trouble, and the governor is off pursuing a presidential run that's turned out to be nothing more than a vanity project," the editorial board wrote. "Mr. Christie's numbers are in the basement, and he's nearly out of campaign cash. This is his moment, all right: to go home and use the year left in his term to clean out the barn, as Speaker John Boehner would say."

The editorial comes the day after the third Republican debate where Christie is widely considered to have had a good debate performance, but he is struggling with low poll numbers in the crowded field. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released earlier this month showed Christie receiving just 1 percent support.

Carson and Trump cruised in this debate. Trump, and let's give him credit, was brilliant to demand (along with Carson) the shorter debate. Shorter debates favor the less-skilled debaters. Trump? Carson? You can't catch them if you don't trap them on one subject at a time, hold them still and make them answer in detail. But there's no way to do that in a ten-person, two-hour, poorly moderated debate.

Trump toned down his game and it worked well. He’s no longer an insult artist, the Don Rickles of the campaign. He almost seemed presidential. Trump seems to have an intuitive sense of how to reshape his candidacy. He’s improved how he handles himself.

That said, there has never been a tantrum quite like the one the ensued when the pompadoured, potty-mouthed billionair shot to the top of the Republican polls without being a republican in any meaningful sense, and without possessing political experience in any sense at all, and without saying anything coherent or even intelligible, and without having any chance of winning the presidency.

I most likely will become a Sanders supporter.